Mr Harvey

When the character of Mr Harvey is introduced he is obscured from our view, many of the shots throughout the film obscure him. He is either lurking in the shadows or is out of focus. The images of him are a lot more desaturated and provide quite a stark contrast to those of Susie before she dies and Susie’s heaven.

The first time we see Mr Harvey is in the same scene where Susie is riding her bicycle in the street. In this scene we only see very tight close ups of his hands, we never see his face. However, as this scene is through Susie's eyes it is still very high contrast with the bloom effect.

When we are placed into Mr Harvey's world it is a very dark place; quite typical of what you would see in a horror film. However, we still don't see his face. This automatically puts the audience on edge, especially as we have already been told that he is Susie's murderer.

One of the main scenes for Mr Harvey is when he actually murders Susie. In this scene he is always on a higher position than Susie, denoting his power. There are a lot of extremely tight close ups of him which makes the audience feel uncomfortable. Here is an image from that scene.

Another scene which is pivotal to his character is when the police knock on his door to ask him questions about Susie (at this point he is not under any suspicion from the police). In this scene he is shown as being creepy and lurks about. One of the policemen asks to look at the dolls house which Mr Harvey is building. Some of these images use frame within a frame techniques to give quite a voyeuristic feel to the scene. Mr Harvey is creepy!